Hemingway Days, one of Key West, Florida's most popular annual events, took place last week in that quirky little town, finishing up yesterday, appropriately enough, with a Hemingway Rum Bar Stroll across eight Key West locations. The festival began this past Wednesday with a "Meet and Greet the Papas" event at Sloppy Joe's Bar, which sponsors a Hemingway look-a-like contest that takes place there Thursday through Saturday, with the winner picked Saturday night. I have always wanted to go to Hemingway Days just to see the annual "Running of the Bulls," which takes place on Saturday and actually can be better described as the running of the Hemingways, and seen in the photograph above that I took off the internet. The festival also has a Carribean Street Fair on Duval Street on Saturday, too, which also sounds fun. Other events include the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, the Key West Marlin Tournament, and a Papa Birthday Bash on Sunday. And why didn't I attend the festival this year? For one thing, hotel rooms are expensive in Key West, costing a minimum of $200 a night if you are lucky. Food and drink are not cheap there, either. And it might get a tad crowded there that weekend, judging by the photograph. Perhaps once they restart the overnight ferry service between Key West and Havana, I'll spend the afternoon there before I drive the car onto that ship on my way to visit Cuba. Surely that ferry will be up and running again by next July. It might take a 16-million-dollar bribe to Trump, but it is doable, right? Right?
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